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that's Youth in that pic, isn't it?

also Gideon Coe is playing "requiem" on 6music right now as a tribute to Raven- that was Youth too, wasn't it?

ah well, it's the thought that counts.....

I remember Bass Guitar Magazine (UK one) did an interview with Youth, the original Killing Joke bassist- but used a pic of Raven in the article! d'oh!

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[url="http://www.cc-club.co.uk/"]http://www.cc-club.co.uk/[/url]
£15, near piccadilly circus.
"See Tony MacAlpine at CC Club this autumn, for a night of great jazz tunes"

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um, doesn't sound like jazz to me....

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ah, I remember now.

doesn't really sound like my thing though.

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"Back to London! I can’t wait!! "The Devil’s Slingshot" is the name Tony MacAlpine gave to this project, with myself on bass, and Virgil Donati on Drums. This will be our second European tour. I’m sure it wil be a great time!"

CC club? where's that?

anyone got more info?

here's the Steinberger-
[url="http://billrushing.org/20060302_steinberger_week_thursday_weirdest_steinberger.htm"]http://billrushing.org/20060302_steinberge...steinberger.htm[/url]

otherwise you could get a doubleneck, like Jonas Hellborg-
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7C8lDnThBs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7C8lDnThBs[/url]

I've seen that clip on tomorrow's world- the daft thing was that he just kept slapping away on it just the same when it was in fretless mode- not really showing what the point was!
(pretty sure it wasn't Abe Laboriel, at least in that clip

Steinberger also made a convertible fretted/fretless bass- I think there's a page on it on the steinbergerworld site, see if I can find it...

RIP.

he had a blog on the Kiling Joke website around the time of the 2003 Killing Joke album (even though Youth/Martin Glover and Geordie ended up playing bass on the album), and he mentioned a warning from his doctor that he had to stop drinking.

80's and Love like blood have great basslines. I think the Nighttime album has got the remaster/expanded release now.

that Vector 5 looks interesting- the headstock, bridge, and the Spector/Warwick body style is just like the Vester mid-90's basses- they did Warwick thumb and Streamer/Spector NS style basses.

nice job (apart from the useless surplus socket...) but a lot of work. and those Behringer USB guitars are only £75 [url="http://www.petercooks.co.uk/clearance.php"]http://www.petercooks.co.uk/clearance.php[/url]

it's a bit like Guy Pratt telling of how he had a Musicman fitted with MIDI to drive a Moog synth- and then concluded "great, now I've got 5 grand's worth of octave pedal that doesn't track very well- waste of time".

this Freebass thing doesn't look promising at all.
3 bassists (is Mani playing guitar?) and no songwriter, by the sounds of things.
Hooky playing his same old licks on that demo track.
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but I thought Hooky sounded great on the single from Perry Farrell's Satellite party "wish upon a dog star".

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[quote name='3V17C' post='71008' date='Oct 8 2007, 01:03 PM']I managed to put up with your onslaught for 10 minutes and then had to leave the building.[/quote]

he was there for just 10 minutes, yet he took the effort to remember the band's name, and later find their website and email them? this guy is a bit sad, isn't he?

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4 notes!

check this out- the forthcoming Duff McKagan signature bass-
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strangely the J pickup looks slightly closer to the neck - it's inline with the pickup selector switch.

yowza, take that one to heart etc.

the J pickup looks closer to the bridge on the Jazz Special than on the Power Jazz Special (as well as the P being reversed on the power), and other fender PJ basses.
I guess that's what gives it that hollow wiry sound with both pickups on full as on the G N' R and Velvet Revolver albums.

[quote name='Shaggy' post='67502' date='Sep 29 2007, 09:21 PM']Permafrost / Magazine[/quote]

I wondered about that one-

turns out he (Barry Adamson) was bending strings on a fretted (Ovation Magnum), with chorus on it-
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlnOGL-7dV4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlnOGL-7dV4[/url]

sounds good on fretless though.

what a band, way before their time.

there's a nice fretless mini-solo in the long version of Gary Moore's "empty rooms".
there are clips on youtube with Bob Daisley playing it live, I think it was Mo Foster who played it on record.

IIRC Pearl Jam's "black" was on fretless too- I'm sure that was influenced by Bad Company's "feel like making love" (Boz Burrell on fretless on that too)

Music for chameleons by Alan Partridge, okay, Gary Numan (Pino Palladino)

Pearl jam- alive
Ozzy Osbourne- mama I'm coming home (Bob Daisley)
Duran duran- lonely in your nightmare
Simple Minds- sweat in bullet (Derek Forbes)
Bauhaus- kick in the eye
Talk talk- today
Living colour - nothingness (Doug Wimbish)

lots of Billy Sheehan, John/Juan Alderete, John Myung fast shredding stuff, and Jaco.

interesting, I remember a pic of Bob Daisley with a rear-routed P-bass like that.

presumably from the same lineage as the Jazz Special.

I'm quite proud of the bassline on "equilibrium" here-
[url="http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=502278"]http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=502278[/url]

although I had trouble with the drummer's sloppiness.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='64240' date='Sep 23 2007, 12:45 AM']That's an Aria Pro II PB-1500 our Russ is playing. [/quote]

ah, I've been wondering what it was.
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I've got waiting for the Floods and the version of Castles in spain on it has fretless bass, but the version I downloaded has fretted bass, probably the Aria. great tone.

Russell Webb occasionally posts on the Big Country forum.

a friend of mine has an Aria SB900 ex-John Taylor.

a drummer with rock solid timing.

then again, i guess it's difficult to find good musicians on any instrument- the best will be busy, and probably on wages, although there are loads of guitarists to choose from.

the guy in the Stereophonics also hacked around a Stingray- took the MM pickup out and had 2 J's put in, with a new pickguard.
then he sold it to the Bass Centre- and started playing Jazzes

U2- piss easy and lots of money!
don't even have to do backing vocals!

but in terms of actually enjoying the music and the challenge, Living Colour.

what cracks me up about the Jaco custom shop relic Jazz is they supply a cleaning cloth with it- to keep it in its brand new condition?